by "Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
Published 11/03/2017 at 15:53
by "Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
Published 11/03/2017 at 15:53
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Did anyone else do this in high school? Towards the end of tests, rather than copying each other my friend and I would just trade tests when the teacher wasn’t looking and check each other’s work. It was quite amazing how well that worked. It only worked for multiple-guess and math. Stuff that didn’t require handwriting homogeneity.
edit: I’m pumped that I had a reason to use the word “homogeneity” today.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/03/2017 at 16:03, STARS: 2
As a teacher and parent, I would like to negative-star this, but it’s not possible. :|
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
11/03/2017 at 16:05, STARS: 8
I dunno about doing that during tests, but I do like the idea of more collaboration in class:
"McMike" (mcmike)
11/03/2017 at 16:09, STARS: 3
A guy I went to HS with found the most clever way to cheat - it only worked on those scanned cards, but this is how he did it.
He sat in his desk the whole class with his question booklet and the answer sheet. He would wait until the smartest kid in the class turned in his book and sheet, and head to the teacher’s desk.
When he got to the desk, he would put his question book down with a page open and ask the teacher a question about a particular question. As he was asking her the question, he had put the book on top of the stack of answer sheets, and was able to take the kids’s sheet back to his desk with him.
He then would copy all the kid’s answers to his sheet, and turn them both in.
I watched it happen and I wasn’t even mad. I was impressed.
"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
11/03/2017 at 16:15, STARS: 0
Considering how collaborative our generation is, it truly is a great idea.
"vondon302" (vondon302)
11/03/2017 at 16:19, STARS: 1
When I was in HS the teacher had 5 different tests for multiple choice and handed them out randomly.
"Discerning" (discerning2003c5z)
11/03/2017 at 16:20, STARS: 2
Shame
"PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
11/03/2017 at 16:21, STARS: 3
I took amazing notes in a finance course in college, scored top marks in the class and set the curve the entire semester.
At the end of the year, my study partner in the class tipped his friend that my notes were really good, and he bought them from me for $100.
He never went to class except for tests, and passed with a B. Said it was the best $100 he’d ever spent.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/03/2017 at 16:29, STARS: 1
We used to do that. We now have Softest. The computer randomizes the questions for each student. It is not possible to cheat.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
11/03/2017 at 16:29, STARS: 4
I have a story you might like.
Can’t remember what year it was, I think senior year. It was English class and there was this cute girl who sat adjacent to me. We never talked until the day of one of the last tests of the year. She starts chatting with me and then asks if she can copy off my test.
I say “sure”
It was a scan-tron test and we were allowed to write on the test itself. So I put the scan-tron on the side of my desk away from her and the test it self on the side closer to her.
On harder questions sometimes I’d mark a wrong answer (that seemed plausible) and mark the correct one on the scan-tron.
Anyway. When we got the tests back I got a B and she got a 40 lol. I felt a little bad, since I wasn’t trying to make her score that low, but not really.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/03/2017 at 16:31, STARS: 1
A group of us did the 80s version of this for our senior term papers. We shared research and bibliographies, which took a lot more time pre-internet. We all got As and were commended for our collaboration.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/03/2017 at 16:34, STARS: 0
You’re right. I do like that story, especially because two of the cutest girls in my freshman Biology class talked to me only when they wanted to copy from my test. I wasn’t as creative as you.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/03/2017 at 16:38, STARS: 0
Counter point: I was 16
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/03/2017 at 16:40, STARS: 1
Haha thankfully Oppo doesn’t have downvotes. I suppose I feel a little bad of our younger members think this was a good idea. It was just a funny thing I remembered doing ~14 years ago.
"Milky" (jordanmielke)
11/03/2017 at 16:40, STARS: 0
Did that in high school too. My friends and I also used to fill a gas station popcorn bucket up before classes and used it to pass answers back and forth. Tear off a little paper - “what the eff is 4?” throw it in the bucket. Then someone would answer back.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/03/2017 at 16:41, STARS: 0
Haha, I was just being collaborative at later stage of the learning journey. It was just procrastinated collaboration.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/03/2017 at 16:41, STARS: 1
That started happening in college for me. I was also a more upstanding student by that time, haha.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/03/2017 at 16:42, STARS: 1
I wouldn’t say not possible, but definitely very hard. And the effort/risk it would take to cheat is probably greater than it is to just learn the subject matter, haha.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/03/2017 at 16:44, STARS: 0
I understand. I hope you don’t think it’s cool now.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/03/2017 at 16:44, STARS: 0
In college I’d always try to find someone that took a class before me with the same professor, their notes were always very very useful.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/03/2017 at 16:46, STARS: 0
Oh, the way things are encrypted, you would have to be a hacker of considerable prowess to figure out how to get at the test. The only practical way to cheat is the old fashioned way of smuggling notes or devices in. Which is why we still proctor exams.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/03/2017 at 16:46, STARS: 1
Haha no, I date a teacher, so I certainly appreciate where you are coming from.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/03/2017 at 16:47, STARS: 1
Haha, I’m mostly confused about how you are allowed to eat popcorn in class during tests.
"Klaus Schmoll" (klausschmoll)
11/03/2017 at 16:55, STARS: 1
I always know when students “collaborated” on a test. After the years you get a feeling for random similar mistakes and when the similarity isn’t random. I can’t fail them if I don’t catch them red handed, and I don’t get mad or anything. I just make a mental note to place them at opposite ends of the room for the next test. The looks on their faces when I ask them to change seats is priceless.
"Tripper" (tripe46)
11/03/2017 at 16:55, STARS: 0
I printed cheat sheets in tiny font and cut them into little palm sized rectangles. Sold em for $1 before each test.
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
11/03/2017 at 18:31, STARS: 0
There were two classes in college for which I set the curve for the semester. While I never offered my notes (frankly, my scribbling and very minimal note taking in the first place wouldn’t be much use to anyone else), I did offer to throw a test here and there if someone wanted to make it worth my while. Sadly for my bank account, no one ever took me up on the offer.
"rillweid - Now with more TRD and less TDI" (rillweid)
11/03/2017 at 19:06, STARS: 0
We do this for all our exams.
"Milky" (jordanmielke)
11/04/2017 at 12:44, STARS: 0
We were little shits that we’re smart enough to not get in any real trouble. The less he asked of us the better.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/06/2017 at 10:55, STARS: 0
Haha that’s great! Probably the even better than getting away with it, catching them at it.